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Swiss banks’ Holocaust fund has paid out $1.24 billion

Holocaust survivors and victims’ heirs have received $1.24 billion from a Swiss fund set up in 1998 following a scandal over dormant accounts of Jews killed in World War II, according to a Jewish weekly.

Poland’s chief rabbi threatens to resign over kosher slaughter ban

Poland’s chief rabbi said he will resign if a definitive ban on kosher slaughter is imposed in the country.

French Jewish school denies students ‘mutinied’ over female chaperones

Teachers from a Jewish school near Paris denied reports that their students had “mutinied” against the presence of female test watchers.

Italian Jewry offers support to black gov’t minister targeted by racism

U.S. lawmakers call for penalizing Argentina over Iran ties

It doesn’t end with Birthright

Poland rejects shechitah slaughter

Twitter says it disclosed details of French anti-Semitic users

Norway, Jews, and Political Murder

In Portugal, Jewish law of return moves from Facebook to law book

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